This article explains how municipalities and local governments can promote the neighborhood platform nebenan.de, for example by creating a profile, posting calls in the community newsletter, or financially supporting invitation campaigns. An email template helps you contact the administration to strengthen local networking and encourage more citizens to participate.
Do you want your neighborhood to grow on nebenan.de but don't know how to invite more neighbors?
Our experience shows: Involving municipalities or local governments is worthwhile!
Here’s what your municipality/local government can do:
- Become a local partner of nebenan.de and create a profile.
- Publish a call in the community newsletter.
- Financially support a distribution campaign of invitations.
Maybe you even know someone who works in your municipality’s/local government’s administration and could support you with this request?
Contact your municipality/local government administration – here’s how:
- Find the contact person (e.g., the mayor)
- Copy the template
- Customize the placeholders (marked in pink) individually
- Send the email
- Follow up by phone or email if necessary
Email template for your municipality/local government administration:
Subject: Request for support: Citizen platform for Name of your municipality/local government
Dear Name of contact person,
I would like to draw your attention to nebenan.de, Germany’s largest social network for neighbors. I am already a user of the neighborhood platform myself and see many advantages in digital local networking.
The German Association of Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) and Diakonie Deutschland also recognize nebenan.de as a modern tool to address current municipal challenges.
At the same time, numerous studies demonstrate the positive impact of local networking on health, care, integration, environmental protection, social cohesion, and democracy.
Learn here more about the specific benefits of a potential cooperation with nebenan.de and which cities and municipalities have already become partners.
I would be very happy if more citizens in our region connected on nebenan.de, because: The more people participate, the better it works!
Thank you in advance for your time.
Best regards,
(Your name)